Teaching "Race" with a Gendered Edge (Paperback)

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Teaching "Race" with a Gendered Edge?Introduction
Kristin Loftsdottir and Brigitte Hipfl
Racism and gender?historical background
Colonial legacies and migration
Problematising "white" Western feminism and whiteness
Spaces of / for change
The chapters in the book

PART I: THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS
Chapter 1: Breaking the Canon? Critical Reflections on "Other" Literary Traditions
Sandra Ponzanesi
Introduction
Towards an alternative canon: Multiculturalism and diversity
The canon and the cultural industry
Race, gender and diversity in the canon: Toni Morrison
Beloved
Conclusion: Beyond the colour-line of the canon?
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
Chapter 2: Monumental Dresses: Coming to Terms with Racial Repression
Rosemarie Buikema
Sexual difference and transitional justice
The woman who kept silent
The poetics of scrap
Implications for teaching: Working with exemplary case studies
Questions
Assignments
Chapter 3: Embodying Otherness while Teaching Race and Gender at White European Universities
Ellis Jonker
Introduction
Becoming educated in (post)colonial European society
Teaching about emotionally charged topics
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments

PART II: EXPRESSIONS OF RACISM AND GENDER IN NATIONAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
Chapter 4: Disappearing Act: The Forgotten History of Colonialism, Eugenics and Gendered Othering in Denmark
Bolette Blaagaard and Rikke Andreassen
?The colonial relationship that never was
?Identifying the difference-gene
?Exhibiting exclusion
?"Religion is not a race"
?Implications for teaching
?Questions
?Assignments
Chapter 5: Portugal and the Empire: Discourses and Practices on Race
and Gender 97
Elsa Peralta and Simone Frangella
?Grasping Portuguese colonial "exception"
?Racial-gendered relations in imperial history
?The making of the "gentler colonialists"
?Post-colonial reverberations
?Implications for teaching
?Questions
?Assignments
Chapter 6: The French Ban on Headscarves: Rendering Racism Respectable
Erzsebet Barat and Ebru Sungun
?Introduction
?Situating the 2004 Act
?Civilising the "uncivilised"
?Gendering the colonial other
?Feminist critique of the ban: "Une Ecole pour Tous et pour Toutes"
?Concluding remarks
?Implications for teaching
?Questions and assignments
Chapter 7: Racial/Ethnic Otherness in Polish Public Discourse
Aleksandra M. Ro?alska
?Conceptualising the racial other in Polish culture
?The ethnic and religious composition of Polish society:
?An historical perspective
?Legal framework
?Cultural racism
?Towards the future
?Implications for teaching
?Questions
?Assignments
Chapter 8: "Not a Country for Women, nor for Blacks": Teaching Race and Gender in Italy between Colonial Heritages and New Perspectives
Manuela Coppola and Sonia Sabelli
?Marketing the "other"
?"Second generations" and the role of education
?New perspectives: Teaching race and gender today
?Implications for teaching
?Questions
?Assignments
List of Contributors